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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17
PUNGENT PARASRAPHS.

When one man tries to do the work
of three the work Of two generally re-
mains undone. - OIL Cftv Blizzard.
If every person would be half as
good as he expects his neighbor to be,
what a heaven this world y.Gpld bel
TEXAS SittingS.
I'm lily" said the tramp 81 toll
not, neither do I spin, and I'll bet my
boots that Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like me. PHILADELPHIA CeA.
Psychologists say that the older a
man grows the smaller his brain be-
comes. This explains why young men
know everything and old men nothing.
Boston Courier
A bride is a sum Of money offered
to person which is considered too
small to be satisfactory; when it rises
to the plane of satisfaction it becomes
q retainer. -LolUeH Citizen
There are some men who will never
get into any but the largest size of hole
This is not because they are naturally
great but because their ears flourish
like green bay-tree. -Pack
Two Chicago men once started on
n wager to see who could tell the big
gest lie. One of them began: "a gen
tleman from St. Louis stop right
there. said the other man, land take
your money. can't go ahead of that"
--Jour1saL of Education.
Here's bit of information that
ought to be pinned in the hat of every
dudelet in town. from their fresh young
leader down: There is magnificent
formation Of rock salt near the town of
San Quentin, Cal, fourteen miles by
three or four, and from 100 to l25 feet
in depth, forming an inexhaustible
supply"
Health Resorts. First Doctor
"Busy?" Second Doctor-"Yes, almost
worked to death" $50 am l. 1t will
be two months before the people re-
turning from their health-getting trips
will quit sending for the doctors"
That's fact. If it wasn't for these
health resorts we would have to 90 out
Of business. "-TeraS SittiAgS.
Sour grapes.
thought her the fairest of creatures
The day our acquaintance began,
But learned very plain was her features,
Ere time had marked out years span;
For you you see mans vision doth clarity so
When his suit is deaied by maidens firm no"
-BOSton Budget.
First Art Critic Cat an exhibtion)
-"Great Scott" Second Art Critic
81 should SO. How under the sun are
we to get up our critiques? l don't
know. There is no way to distinguish
good painting from bad. None at all.
There isn't a single price-mark in the
whole cataloguo."- Omaha World
DO not be too eager to show off
your talents, my son. Keep dark.
Many man has made reputation for
himself by doing just nothing at ALL
As long as Il man doesn't try to do
any thing, people are ready to believe
that he is equal to do every thing. When
he makes an attempt and fails in one
direction, he is believed to be incapable
in all directions.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17
TOILER'S CHRISTMAS HYMN.

have faith that holds my life
Above the slough OF sin;
That stills the angry waves of strife,
And gives me peace within;
1t is the story of the morn,
From Heavens inspired pen,
That tells to all how Christ was born
To walk the earth with men.
The shepherds meath the starry sky
Heard, tar beyond their ken,
The glory sung to God on high,
Good will and peace to men;
They saw the dawn in roseate light
Sweep back the ages gloom,
And Heavens love cleave pure and bright
The pathway from the tomb.
Not for the mobiles purple clad,
Not for the kingly crowned,
Came Christ from God, with tidings glad
That our salvation found;
He sought the lowly poor, oppressed;
In hovel, hut and cave;
And made the toiling millions blessed,
In triumph DER the grave.
As Moses smote the rock OF old
He touched the human heart,
And from its center, hard and cold,
Saw loves sweet waters starr;
His emblem was the palm, not rod,
And, oh He taught us then,
The way to win the love OF God
Is through the love of men.
Oh brother toiler, lift your head,
Nor heed earth's cruel blows;
The Christ who ate our bitter bread,
And sorrowed DER our woes,
Is yet our friend of humble birth,
And holds His blessings nigh,
For He who shared our homes on earth
Has homes for US on high.
DOM Pint
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17
CLARENCE MORTON'S CAREER.
How "a Young Lady Was Saved from Be-
coming a Drunkard's Wife.

How "A Young Lady Was Saved from Be-
coming a Drunkard's Wife.
There is no lovelier village in the
Empire State than Franconia though
this is not its reaI name, neither shall
l give the real names of the charac-
tiers who will figure in the following
story. though they are real people and
yet upon the stage of action.
am SO sorry, mother. tina Mary
is SO deceived in young Norton" said
Henry Golding, as he came into Mrs.
Golding's pleasant parlor, one sum-
mer evening.
what do you mean, my SOM" asked
the mother, looking up from her sew
ing. II had always supposed that
Mr. Morton was II gentleman. He
certainly belongs to one of our best
families"
THAT is true, neither dear, but this
gentleman of 'one of our first fami-
lies, is at this very moment half-drunk
at the hotel and acting like fool"
20 Harry are you not misinformedP"
said the mother. looking up with hor-
ritied expression.
my eyes do not deceive me, mother"
the son replied. 81 have known Nor
toms failing for n long time, but Mary
is as firm as "A rock. She will not be-
lievc any thing to the prejudice of her
lover"
Mrs. Golding was sorcly troubled.
Drunkenness is such shameful
vice" she said. when q man once
degrades himself SO much, what can
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17
A RLOODLESS MAN.
The Most Remarked bic Physical Phenom-
enOn ON Record.

The Most Remarkable Physical Phenom-
enOn on Record
Not many miles from Berlin there
lives a man who, if what report saws of
him be true, is certainly ono of the most
remarkable phenomena on record. The
papers state rs u positive fact that he
has no blood in his veins, and that q
committee of the leading physicians and
scientists have declared their inability
to account for this extraordinary cir
cumstance. The man is corporal in
the German array and goes by the name
of Otto Schneider. He himself was
quite unconscious of his bloodless con-
dition until two months ago, when he
fought a duel with fellow soldier.
His opponent ran his sword through
his body, without. however, drawing
any blood, and the ''patient" seemed
not bit the worse. The man was so
taken by surprise that Otto had no
trouble in killing him. Since that time
the comrades of the corporal have been
careful not to tread on his toes, and on
no consideration to accept challenge
from him. He was submitted to a Sc
we're test ut medical institute in Ber-
lin. A knife was thrust into his mouth,
the point comingsut at the back of the
neck. Not drop of blood was spilled,
and Otto fclt,no pain during the opera
ton. The gentlemen who examined
him are now fully convinced that there
are many things in heaven and earth
that they never dreamed of. Otto
Schneider intends, AS soon us his time is
up (the next Year,. to show himself in
the principal cities of Europe. La ES-
trelid de Panama.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17
One ClTY'S SALOON BILL

Minister'S FigureS-Between $4,000
900 and S2o,OO0,UOO IA Year for j. quor.
What do you suppose is the annual
saloon bill of BROOKLYN You will
hardly believe until l prove it to YOU
1t is between sixteen and twenty mill
ions of dollars. A sum so vast that we
must needs break it up into smaller
sums to get any practical idea of it.
First, let me show you how l reach the
result There are little less than
5000 licensed saloons in our city. Now
it is an under and not an over estimate
to put these three thousand saloons al
SIS per day for three hundred and six
R-five days in the year. Indeed, a
saloon-keeper to whom these figures
were recently shown declares that
saloon can not live upon an average
receipt of less than S2o pc, day. Three
thousand saloons at S15 per day make
grand total of $16, 425, 600 per annum.
This is easily within the lines 1t is
more likely 500, 100000. Now. in order
to get this enormous amount of money
before you, | present you this table
This enormous sum of money repre-
sents the following values:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17
POWER OF LUCIGEN.
A New Light Which Is Twelve Times Al
Cheap as Gas.

Cheap as Gas.
A very successful demonstration of
its Oucigen) great lighting powers was
recently given at the Crystal Palace
The method of producing this light
consists in forming an intimate mixture
of air and infinitely divided oil particles,
resulting, when ignited, in continu-
Gus, steady flame of great brightness
The mechanism, which is very simple,
is worked by a small supply of COM
pressed air ard the flame is under per-
feet control by merely turning tap.
As the light is produced by the COM
bustion of crude and waste oils, its cost
is. by actual measurement by the official
gas analyst for Glasgow, found to be
from one-tenth to one-twelfth the cost
of gas, and alb cut one-twentieth that of
electric light of the same actual candle
power. 1t is stated that an area of half
n square mile can be flooded with light
equal to daylight at an expenditure of
one shilling and thrcepence per hour
The great value of this light lies in
its diifusiveness, which adapts it so
admirably for use on works or where
any outdoor operations have to be
carried on at night. A naked arc lamp
in room is so binding that work can
not be done; but when an opalescent
globe is placed over it, so us to reduce
the intensity, the eye sees details in the
room much better, although the opales-
cent globe has cut off three-quarters of
the light. The effect of the lucigen may
be imagined. as it is said to produce Il
flame of three thousand actual candle
power. or equal to six large arc lamps,
while its radiative surface is about three
hundred and fifty square inches. as
against one square-inch for the arc
lamp. The result is that the lucigen
gives light of quality highly effect
i've for working purposes.
The lucigen marks the latest advance
in the history of the production of light
from carbonaceous substances, as not
only does it raise the carbon particles
to the most intense white heat, but the
form of the flame is such rs to retain
them in that condition for the longest
period.
The lucigen has been adopted at a
large NUM- Der of works in this country,
including those of the Fourth Bridge,
and it is also in use by the French gov
eminent for military operations. Iron.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17

There have recently been dis
covered in the high Alps, near the sum-
nit of the great St. Bernard. five large
granite affairs ana number of other
relics of the stone age, such as axes.
knives. etc, used in the pagan epcchs
for sacrifices Swiss writers emphasize
the historical Importance of this discov-
cry, in that is Il proof that st. Bernard
was place of sacrifice in pagan times.
and also that rs far back as the age Of
stone the Canton Valais was inhabited
by human beings. Pablo Opinion
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17

lotdl' clio, IL i,UO0
Now let us suppose that the city of
Brooklyn should receive every year I'm
order to manufacture the above articles
of food and build every year the num-
Der of school-houses, churches. asy-
lums, homes. museums. and furnish
the stipulated number of library books.
instead of the order to sell SO much
liquor what would not be the aided
prosperity OF our oityP-IrSSa Word,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-06-03
A Talk TO Farm BOys.

Farm boys, you need not envy the young
men who stand behind the counters of the
city shops You need not envy the young
men who are making ready to take the
places of the great army of lawyers and
pettifoggers who are subsisting by the lit
cations of quarrelsome and contentious
clients And certainly you ought not to
envy the boys who have no employment at
all those who are growing up to manhood
without acquiring industrious habits upon
which to rely in times of great need and
pressing emergencies, whose idleness in
vites to temptations which so often lure to
mental and bodily ruin. Your clothes may
not be so finely spun and made as the city
boys, but you are the peers of them all,
with your bronzed faces and horny hands,
however pretentous their employments.
Your business is one which antedates every
other vocation in the world. The farmer
was ploughing and sowing and reapng
long before merchant, or lawyer or doc
tor was known and he still stands fore
most at the gates whence issue to the mil
lions of the world the steady, never-failing
streams of Righteousness and life. gen
Grafton or so ago the brightest boys of the
farmers family were assigned to the pro-
fessions The dull fellows were sent to the
fields. Nowadays a different order of
things prevails Once the idea was popular
that only muscular strenth was necessary
on farm-the strength to guide u pillow, to
WELD an axe, hoe or scythe-the endur-
ance to go through with the swetering tasks
of summer or the exposing duties of win
ter These important requisites given, g
BOBBY might fill the place just as well as
any one else. So some folks used to think
but what say you, working farmers boys
Do you not place a higher estimate upor
your skill, and upon the value of your ser
vices Look up, then, and vindicate your
selves. You are getting health and strength
from the wholesome exercise of the fields
and that you may have the necessary intel
ligence to combine with this strength fo
the proper prosecution of your calling, ap
ply yourselves diligently to acquiring
knowledge whenever respite from labo
shall give you the opportunity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-06-03

A correspondent in Lewistown, N. c.,
shows plainly hardship to which farmers
are subjected in that state when they wish
to obtain money, even on safe securities.
He finds in a local paper an advertisement
of Money to loan" by an association that
is represented as doing business in Elmira,
and desires some sort of voucher for its in
tegrity. His letter follows
see card in our local grange paper
from your town which l hand you, mon
ey to loan" VIII you be so kind as to let
me know if it is a fraud
A farmer here can borrow no money I'M
less he will enter into an obligation to ship
ten bales of cotton for 500 advanced, and
this is ruinous to him, as he must strain ev-
cry nerve to grow cotton regardless of all
other crops.
We have lands in eastern Carolina that
have grown 100 bushels of yellow corn to
the acre on an average for 100 years, with
an annual growth of pea vines with the
corn crop as a fertilizer and no other ma
nure, and yet we buy our meat from the
west since the emancipation of the colored
people, and much of our corn, The lands
of the Nile, famous in history as the gran
AIRY of the world, are not richer than those
of the Roanoke if we had the means to
work them, but this cannot be done with
out money.
Will you let me know if this association
really cares to place loans ON real estate in
this section and at what rate per centum
as we have no banking facilities here and
are dependent on Baltimore or Norfolk fol
advances, mostly in supplies for which they
demand their eXtortionate charges With
orr money orr peopla are slaves i'm tn,
hands of the local merchants, who demanC
at chattel mortgage prices that will run
any people on the face of the earth Al
ready many of our farmers are slaves t,
the merchants, and worse than slaves, for
they are not bound to feed, clothe or pro
vide for them in sickness. -Eimird HuS
buudWun
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-06-03

Boys, do not try to learn to use tobacco.
Stop minute and let us consider the mat
ter Why should you wish to learn Oh I!
because Harry uses it, that is your reason.
Well, does it do Harry any good You
"dont know as it does" Very well then,
let us consider the reasons against its use,
In the first place, it is injurious to the
health it is also expensive, and moreover,
filthy. Now how do the ayes and noes bal
ance Don't for a moment imagine it is a
smart thing to do. Any fool can learn
to use it, but it sometimes takes a smart boy
to have manliness to refuse to do as his silly
mates are doing BY this do not mean to
he understood as saying only fools use to-
bacco, but do say there is nothing smart
or manly in learning to use it, Nothing
smart, but that other thing that people
designate with sneer as 'smarty.n
have nothing severe TO say to those who
have become confirmed in the habit of us
ing the weed, for habit is as remorseless
as a pair of handouts but l have no pa
thence with the beginner who will nauseate
himself, and suffer the torture of accustom-
ing himself TO the nuisance, when he would
be thousand times better without it. We
hear every day of cases of heart disease
aggravated by the use of tobacco of that
horror, smokers cancer, and now comes a
report from London of blindness from the
same cause. Here is what London paper
says ON the subject
Tobacco blindness is becoming a com
mon affection. At present there are sew
eral persons under treatment for it at one
London hospital. 1t first takes the form Of
color blindness, the sufferers who have
smoked themselves into this condition be
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-06-03
Vernon, Farms n- an Investment

A brother of S. w. Dorsey said in New
York the other day You can buy i'm
proved farm land in the great Champlain
valley for less per acre than men are pay
ing for unimproved farms in Missouri and
Kansas whittier the great tide of emigra-
ton is flowing. l know of property of
400 acres of improved land on which thel e
was modern house built within a few
years at a cost of $4,000, which was sold re
Gently at public auction for 1920. 1t is
one of the finest and most productive farms
i'll the Champlain valley A similar prop
erty in Kansas would have been considered
worth three times as much. The fact is
that the attention of the country has been
entirely drawn to western investments, and
as "A consequence eastern property is at a
low ebb. Nevertheless, as investments
farms i'll New England are still worth buy
ing"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-06-03
AGRICULTURAL.
AnImmirrn,ion Arrnc, for Worm

An Immigration Agency for vermont.
The Phoenix has never encouraged the
dcsertion Of Vermont for other and gen
orally less desirable places in the distant
states and territories If all the papers Of
Vermont were TO discourage emigration,
and tell the truth about the desirablity Of
a home in our own state as compared with
the homes to which most Of our emigrants
20. il would save thousands from homesick
ness and regrets and add hundreds of thou
sands to our wealth But the merits Of our
own state are overlooked or deprecated,
while columns are given to Interested cor
respondents wherein TO puff localities in the
western states and territories Our people
are constantly exposed to the influence of
Interested parties, who would beguile them
away from their homes. We find in the
"Patrons' column Of the Rural Nermonter
n commendatory notice Of scheme started
by the grangers of the enterprising state of
California to promote the emigration of
grangers from the eastern states and Can
ada. The notice reads as follows:
california Patrons have taken steps TO
organize a grange immigration agency, so
that Eastern members of the grange who
may desire to go to California for the pur-
pose Of making the state their home, may
obtain reliable information in regard to the
country without the fear of having frauds
perpetrated upon them by parties who are
Interested in private speculation. The OBJ
iect is laudable and will doubtless be appre-
ciated by many who are looking toward the
Pacific coast. The California Patron says :
The desire of the grange is to furnish just
such immigration as proceeds from the
grange in the eastern and western states
and Canada. 1t is this better population
the state Graves, and nothing will be left
undone by the officers of the state grange
to make this the medium of absolutely re
liable knowledge of the peculiar desirability
of each county of the state.
1t is this better population that the state
of California 'craves," that the state of
Vermont cannot afford to spare. Instead
of losing any part of this population which
we now have, we want others of the same
kind to make homes in this state Why do
not the Patrons of Vermont organize u
grange immigration agency so that western
members of the grange, and particularly
California members, who may desire to
come to Vermont for the purpose of max
ing this state their home, may obtain re
liable information" of the peculiar desira-
bility of each county" in the state wherein
so many privileges can be enjoyed which
are unattainahle in large portion of the
western half of the countryi
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-06-03
LETONIAN VICTOR

DEDIGREE Sired by General Putnam, he by
L Rulla, by IIill's Vermont Black Hawk. by Sher-
man Morgan, by Justin Morgan, Gen. Putnam's
dam an Abdallah. Nictor's dam was Goldsmith's
volunteer, "a dam by Seeley's American star
Third dam Pilot.
DESCRIPTION Victor Is a trotter and sire of
trotters. He has trotted ON half-mile track in
2.33, the last half in L. This showing was made
when he untitled and unframed. and after
covering 81 mares during the season. He has colts
that have trotted in . ~ and quite number that
have trottcd better than 40 at -four and five years
old. One better than = 80 at two years old
HAMBLETONIAN VICTOR, commencing Jurs
9TH will stand at Brattlrburo Vt at the stable of
Oscar T. Ware, from Monday at p. ~, till Tues
day at O'Clock p. NJ, Of each week The remand.
er of the time at the stable Of the subscriber in
GriswOldvie, Mass. Terms S15 to insure Acct
dents to mares at owners risk.
~ JAMES +. MCCLELLAN.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-06-03

ing quite unable to distinguish the color Of
piece Of red cloth held up before thcm.
Sometimes the victim loses his sight alto
gethcr Although smoking is to a large ex
tent the cause of the malady, heavy drink
ing is also partly responsible, The House
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-06-03
Tromhle Ahenh.

When the appetite fails and sleep grow restless
and unrefreshing, there is trouble ahead, The di-
gestive organs, when healthy, crave food the
nervous system, when vigorous and tranquil, gives
It's posSesSor no uneasiness at night. A tonic to
be effective should not be mere appetizer nor
are the nerves to be strengthened and soothed by
the unaded action of a sedatve or "a narcotic
What is required is a medicine which invigorates
the stomach and promotes assimilation Of food by
the system, by which means the nervous system
as well us other parts of the physical organism
are strengthened These are the effects of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, IA medicine whose repu
tation is founded firmly in public confidence ant
which physicians commend for its tonic anti
bilious and other properties 1t is used with tn,
best results IN fever add ague, rheumatism, kid
ney and uterine weakness, and other maladies
ON account nf its big hoom Alabama 10 ,,oy